Microsoft is sometimes slow in laying to rest some of its older services, but not so MSN Messenger. Microsoft has announced that the company will shutter the service on March 15th for good. Of course Microsoft will not leave you high and dry, that's a perk of the company purchasing Skype in 2011. Switch over and never look back. R.I.P MSN Messenger In the past few months it has been encouraging users to sign into the Skype client with their Microsoft (Hotmail, Outlook.com, Windows Live, MSN) accounts in order to convert their accounts.